Are We All Postracial Yet?

However, as Ferguson, MO, and countless social statistics show, beneath such claims lurk more sinister shadows of the racial -everyday, institutional, and structural racisms persist and renew themselves beneath the veneer of nonraciality. A conundrum lies at its vey heart -as seen when the election of a black President was taken to be the pinnacle of postraciality. In this sparkling essay, Goldberg seeks to explain this conundrum, and reveals how the postracial is merely the afterlife of race, not its demise. Postraciality is the new logic of raciality.